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MISS tOUISS lA^’E 0P?:M3 G-IFT shop for GI JOS’ .' ' Let the boygs know through HFN that we now have a shopping service for them if they want to take advantage, of it* it xforks this way: ' : If a, boy wants a gift sent to hi$ mother, sister, sweet-* heart, ets, , or flov/ers to his girl, or a gift for a neX'f baby or any kind or remembrance, tell him to wtite: Miss Louise Lane, Chm. Home Front Hews Shopping Service, and the gift, will be pur chased and delivered. It will be wrapped in an appropriate wra.p ping and card ' will be enclosed. Ho sends a money order and states if possible about what he v/ants to spend and maybe gives some idea Of the type of person the gift is to go to. The shop ping Service then goes shopping, -selects a gift, v/raps it, and sees that it is delivered. If: there is any change due the giver then it is returned to him by money order. ’ Herod’S a little poem that sets forth a few simple, but mighty important truths. Ey Binsw^hger and Go, of Richmond and sent in by our mutual friend Senator W. Q-. ( ‘‘CouBin Willie”) Cla^i^'* You pay your taxes and I pay mine. But a Boy gave his life on the firing ^line. YOU grumble for mer^t and, that traveling* s slow - Would you like to trade places with G-. Joe ? Would you like to climb up in a cpcoanut tree And wait for a Jap you couldn’t s«e? " ”No cocGanut paIm.^ in my yard, you, gay, «And if. there were, what- about pay ?» Fifty bucks if you live to collect.- Which you won*t if,the Jap .makes his bullet connect. , »I*m hungry and tired and want a drink» Well, look at that canteen. Did you ever think . That a bullet went thru and your flask is dry ? y And the sun get s’higher and hot in , the, sky. Climb up in the apple tree by jour door And prop yourself just an hour or more. See whht' I moan ? But the- Boy took, his plane . , ,, Over Fortress Europe with flak thick a£? rain, . ' , ' You don»t ,have much sugar, but he’s -getting, lead ~ ^ ■' ' .There’S; a'hole in his helmet - just pissed hiS; head, ^ You want some new shoes, you; could use^ tho.m> . too. " . But the Boy lost his foot -• so he won’t need a shoe So go buy your War Bond 'o Can* t • yoii buy tivo ’Dr, more , For that Boy who Just fell on a far. distant shore ? ' PINETOPS NEWS; 'Red Cross sewing room hf»,s recently . . beeh Wi opened in: pinetops, Muoh .^.nterest is being shov/n.'■ Lt, and Mrs. "-/, A. Umstead anno,tec;5 the birth, of ,a ■ son Lt. w. 'E. Cobb, jr, is with the army air corp In' I celahd, CpXV'^ Sara Nash Dunn^ who ! has 'Just returned from ac>.ive overseas duty i s •: spending a thirty day furlough with hi a mo v:i>;^r l^rs, W*L, Dunn Mrs-, Jack Corbett and daughter h.r,ve, returned-from Alabama where they visited pvt., Jack Corbett, The boys sponcling, brief leaves with their parents, are: S/2C Archie Owens, , Sgt,. Slsler Webb, Pfc, 'Ed Stanfield, Pfc, Hal Parker, Norfleet Sugg .USN,- and pfc, Bill Harper, Bennett. Jenkins, Preston Ellis, Buck C* Crisp and Jack Summerlin are on the wai-ting list to be called into; ser vice. Mr, Bruce Steadma.n and Miss Norma Bates of Washington Court House, Ohio ,were married'July I2th, in OhiQ, S/Sgt, Walt- ,er W, Philli|)s and Pfc,* H, Bruton C^^aft are in-the hospital somewhere in Australia. , - ' '' * ”Your v/ife gave'birth to an: eight-poung baby girl this, morning read the telegram to the new' father. Attached "to, this'message was -a sticker reading: . »When’ you want a boy call,'Western union” .
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